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The Joker’s origin isn’t covered in the TV series, but it probably wouldn’t have helped to clear up the character’s murky past anyhow. Since he tells multiple conflicting stories about his life, any story The Joker tells from his past is hard to believe. Nothing is sacred or canonical when it comes to The Joker’s origin. That’s the way Robinson and Finger wanted it, as Robinson once said that having a true origin “takes away from some of the essential mystery.” Still, two origin stories are held in particularly high regard.
The first happened eleven years after the character’s first appearance, when Detective Comics #168 told us about a lab worker who dons a colorful, blank mask, and becomes the Red Hood in order to steal big money from his employer. Batman thwarts the plan, and the Red Hood falls into a bubbling vat of chemical waste, which gives The Joker his famous red, white, and green features. That’s the basis for Alan Moore and Brian Bolland’s Eisner Award-winning Batman: The Killing Joke, which fleshes out the story by transforming The Joker into a failed comedian who is talked into robbing the chemical plant that used to employ him. A variation on this origin story is used in Tim Burton’s Batman (1989).
The first happened eleven years after the character’s first appearance, when Detective Comics #168 told us about a lab worker who dons a colorful, blank mask, and becomes the Red Hood in order to steal big money from his employer. Batman thwarts the plan, and the Red Hood falls into a bubbling vat of chemical waste, which gives The Joker his famous red, white, and green features. That’s the basis for Alan Moore and Brian Bolland’s Eisner Award-winning Batman: The Killing Joke, which fleshes out the story by transforming The Joker into a failed comedian who is talked into robbing the chemical plant that used to employ him. A variation on this origin story is used in Tim Burton’s Batman (1989).
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